"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit."
-Napoleon Hill
Without hope, the soul dies.
-via Gail Halverson WWII Vet
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow-Learn as if you were to live forever"
-Mahatma Gandhi
"To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail."
-Michael Jordan
"They misunderestimated me!"
-George W. Bush"
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!"
-Homer J. Simpson
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
-Dave Barry
"Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes."
-Gandhi
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."
-Mark Twain
"You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn."
-Benjamin Franklin
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature."
--Sigmund Freud
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with the heart."
-Hellen Keller
“If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart...”
-James Allen (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense.)
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
-Jack Kerouac
“The Happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
-Lord Tennyson Alfred (English Poet 1809-1892)
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
-Seneca (Roman Philosopher, mid 1st century AD)
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it”
-Mae West (American Actress, 1892-1980)
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
-Franklin P. Jones
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
-Benjamin Franklin
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
-C.S. Lewis
"The intelligent want self-control; children want candy."
-Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273)
“Fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.”
-Steve Irwin (The Crocodile Hunter)
Just a thought I had:
Space and more specifically time, are relative to the expanding universe.
"Lifes Tough, get a helmet!"
"Boldly Going Nowhere."
"Politicians and diapers both need to be changed, and for the same reason."
"I'm not tailgating, I'm keeping up with the pace car."
"I have the answer in my head. I just haven't found it yet."
"Love will die if held to tightly, love will fly if held to lightly."
"The lesson is in the struggle, not in the victory!"
"Knowledge talks, wisdom listens."
"Sometimes your the dog, sometimes your the hydrant"
"Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother."
A monarch of long ago had twin sons. There was some confusion about which one was born first. As they grew to young manhood, the king sought a fair way to designate one of them as crown prince. All who knew the young men thought them equal in intelligence, wit, personal charm, health, and
physical strength. Being a keenly observant king, he thought he detected a trait in one which was not shared by the other.
Calling them to his council chamber one day, he said, "My sons, the day will come when one of you must succeed me as king. The burdens of sovereignty are very heavy. To find out which of you is better able to bear them cheerfully, I am sending you together to a far corner of the kingdom. One of my advisers there will place equal burdens on your shoulders. My crown will one day go to the one who first returns bearing his burden like a king should."
In a spirit of friendly competition, the brothers set out together. Soon they overtook an aged woman struggling under a burden that seemed far too heavy for her frail body. One of the boys suggested that they stop to help her.
The other protested: "We have a burden of our own to worry about. Let us be on our way."
The objector hurried on while the other stayed behind to give aid to the aged woman. Along the road, from day to day, he found others who also needed help. A blind man took him miles out of his way, and a lame man slowed him to a cripple's walk.
Eventually he did reach his father's advisor, where he secured his own burden and started home with it safely on his shoulders. When he arrived at the palace, his brother met him at the gate, and greeted him with dismay.
He said, "I don't understand. I told our father the burden was too heavy to carry. However did you do it?"
The future king replied thoughtfully, "I suppose when I helped others carry their burdens, I found the strength to carry my own."
~unknown to me
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her tombstone. From the beginning...to the end. He noted that first came her date of birth and spoke the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years. (1934 -1998) For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth... and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth. For it matters not, how much we own; The cars...the house...the cash, what matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard... are there things you'd like to change? For you never know how much time is left, that can still be rearranged. If we could just slow down enough to consider what's true and real, and always try to understand the way other people feel. And be less quick to anger, and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we've never loved before. If we treat each other with respect, and more often wear a smile.. remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So, when your eulogy's being read with your life's actions to rehash... would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?
-Unknown
This is an actual job application a 17 year old boy submitted at a
McDonald's fast-food establishment in Florida. They hired him because he
was so honest and funny!
NAME: Greg Bulmash
Sex: Not yet. Still waiting for the right person.
DESIRED POSITION: Company's President or Vice President. But seriously,
what ever's available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn't be
applying here in the first place.
DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style
severance package. If that's not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.
EDUCATION: Yes.
LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management hostility.
SALARY: Less than I'm worth.
MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and
post-it notes.
REASON FOR LEAVING: It sucked.
HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK: Any.
PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS? Yes, but they're better suited to a more
intimate environment.
MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER? If I had one, would I be here?
DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 LBS? Of what?
DO YOU HAVE A CAR? I think the more appropriate question here would be, do you have a car that runs?"
HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION? I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes.
DO YOU SMOKE? On the job no, on my breaks yes.
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS? Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde super model who thinks I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I'd like to be doing that now.
DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR
KNOWLEDGE? Yes, Absolutely.
-Napoleon Hill
Without hope, the soul dies.
-via Gail Halverson WWII Vet
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow-Learn as if you were to live forever"
-Mahatma Gandhi
"To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail."
-Michael Jordan
"They misunderestimated me!"
-George W. Bush"
I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!"
-Homer J. Simpson
You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
-Dave Barry
"Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes."
-Gandhi
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."
-Mark Twain
"You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn."
-Benjamin Franklin
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature."
--Sigmund Freud
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with the heart."
-Hellen Keller
“If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart...”
-James Allen (New Zealander Statesman. Minister of defense.)
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
-Jack Kerouac
“The Happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
-Lord Tennyson Alfred (English Poet 1809-1892)
“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
-Seneca (Roman Philosopher, mid 1st century AD)
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it”
-Mae West (American Actress, 1892-1980)
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
-Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967
What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
-Franklin P. Jones
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
-Benjamin Franklin
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
-C.S. Lewis
"The intelligent want self-control; children want candy."
-Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273)
“Fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.”
-Steve Irwin (The Crocodile Hunter)
Just a thought I had:
Space and more specifically time, are relative to the expanding universe.
Unknowns
"To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.""Lifes Tough, get a helmet!"
"Boldly Going Nowhere."
"Politicians and diapers both need to be changed, and for the same reason."
"I'm not tailgating, I'm keeping up with the pace car."
"I have the answer in my head. I just haven't found it yet."
"Love will die if held to tightly, love will fly if held to lightly."
"The lesson is in the struggle, not in the victory!"
"Knowledge talks, wisdom listens."
"Sometimes your the dog, sometimes your the hydrant"
"Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother."
My new favorite quote: June 2014
“Live in the moment, don’t get old, don’t judge people!
Because you can’t be free if you judge people!
Love, Now! Create! Inspire! Pthptptptpt! B-gock!”
By doing what you love
This!
The moment!
You are already doing what’s in your heart, you can’t get
away from your heart, because life is a paradox, it’s a mirror of confusion. So
love now! I love all of you!
-Crazy High Dude
How To Carry Your Burden
A monarch of long ago had twin sons. There was some confusion about which one was born first. As they grew to young manhood, the king sought a fair way to designate one of them as crown prince. All who knew the young men thought them equal in intelligence, wit, personal charm, health, and
physical strength. Being a keenly observant king, he thought he detected a trait in one which was not shared by the other.
Calling them to his council chamber one day, he said, "My sons, the day will come when one of you must succeed me as king. The burdens of sovereignty are very heavy. To find out which of you is better able to bear them cheerfully, I am sending you together to a far corner of the kingdom. One of my advisers there will place equal burdens on your shoulders. My crown will one day go to the one who first returns bearing his burden like a king should."
In a spirit of friendly competition, the brothers set out together. Soon they overtook an aged woman struggling under a burden that seemed far too heavy for her frail body. One of the boys suggested that they stop to help her.
The other protested: "We have a burden of our own to worry about. Let us be on our way."
The objector hurried on while the other stayed behind to give aid to the aged woman. Along the road, from day to day, he found others who also needed help. A blind man took him miles out of his way, and a lame man slowed him to a cripple's walk.
Eventually he did reach his father's advisor, where he secured his own burden and started home with it safely on his shoulders. When he arrived at the palace, his brother met him at the gate, and greeted him with dismay.
He said, "I don't understand. I told our father the burden was too heavy to carry. However did you do it?"
The future king replied thoughtfully, "I suppose when I helped others carry their burdens, I found the strength to carry my own."
~unknown to me
Eulogy
I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on her tombstone. From the beginning...to the end. He noted that first came her date of birth and spoke the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years. (1934 -1998) For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth... and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth. For it matters not, how much we own; The cars...the house...the cash, what matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.
So think about this long and hard... are there things you'd like to change? For you never know how much time is left, that can still be rearranged. If we could just slow down enough to consider what's true and real, and always try to understand the way other people feel. And be less quick to anger, and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we've never loved before. If we treat each other with respect, and more often wear a smile.. remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.
So, when your eulogy's being read with your life's actions to rehash... would you be proud of the things they say about how you spent your dash?
-Unknown
Brutally honest job application
This is an actual job application a 17 year old boy submitted at a
McDonald's fast-food establishment in Florida. They hired him because he
was so honest and funny!
NAME: Greg Bulmash
Sex: Not yet. Still waiting for the right person.
DESIRED POSITION: Company's President or Vice President. But seriously,
what ever's available. If I was in a position to be picky, I wouldn't be
applying here in the first place.
DESIRED SALARY: $185,000 a year plus stock options and a Michael Ovitz style
severance package. If that's not possible, make an offer and we can haggle.
EDUCATION: Yes.
LAST POSITION HELD: Target for middle management hostility.
SALARY: Less than I'm worth.
MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT: My incredible collection of stolen pens and
post-it notes.
REASON FOR LEAVING: It sucked.
HOURS AVAILABLE TO WORK: Any.
PREFERRED HOURS: 1:30-3:30 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL SKILLS? Yes, but they're better suited to a more
intimate environment.
MAY WE CONTACT YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER? If I had one, would I be here?
DO YOU HAVE ANY PHYSICAL CONDITIONS THAT WOULD PROHIBIT YOU FROM LIFTING UP TO 50 LBS? Of what?
DO YOU HAVE A CAR? I think the more appropriate question here would be, do you have a car that runs?"
HAVE YOU RECEIVED ANY SPECIAL AWARDS OR RECOGNITION? I may already be a winner of the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes.
DO YOU SMOKE? On the job no, on my breaks yes.
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE DOING IN FIVE YEARS? Living in the Bahamas with a fabulously wealthy dumb sexy blonde super model who thinks I'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, I'd like to be doing that now.
DO YOU CERTIFY THAT THE ABOVE IS TRUE AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF YOUR
KNOWLEDGE? Yes, Absolutely.
If God had a refrigerator
If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Whenever you want to talk, He listens.
He can live anywhere in the universe, but He chose
...your heart.
Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!
God didn't promise days without pain,
laughter without sorrow, sun without rain,
but He did promise strength for the day,
comfort for the tears, and light for the way.
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